Surname Gliha in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Gliha families are Croats (from Peljesac Peninsula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pula.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Gliha live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (20), Velika Gorica (<5), Rovinj (<5), Trpanj on the Peljesac peninsula (<5), and in Miholascica on the Island of Cres (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gliha (including: Gholiha , Glicha ) is present in 9 countries on three continents. The family name "Gliha " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Igor Gliha, Rihard Gliha, Zlatica Gliha, Oton Gliha, Dario Gliha, Daniela Gliha, Zoran Gliha, Vladimir Gliha, Dragutin Gliha, Rafael Gliha, Andro Gliha, Karlo Gliha, Volga Gliha, Ankica Gliha, Željka Gliha, August Gliha, Marjana Gliha, Slavko Gliha, Krunoslav Gliha

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1925 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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